Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:39:34 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] How to sell books.....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Booksellers want to know what a new book is like, what does it compare
to.  Publishers have answers!

>From The Bookseller (UK)

"It's like Lord of the Rings meets Gandhi"
"Freddy Krueger meets Enid Blyton"
"Watership Down meets 'Macbeth'"
"Genre-busting"
"Master of the moral dilemma"
"Artemis Fowl meets Fast Food Nation"
"Little Orphan Annie meets 'Edward Scissorhands'"

mjw